Make this dress (read all 17 entries…)
It may take a year

or more, but the last time I spent five years on making something I really loved I was not sorry (a knitted shawl that I spun all the yarn for and a lot was hand-dyed by me).
It’s heavily embroidered but I did really find great satisfaction in the making of a textile this weekend, and the work is so beautiful and this picture makes me want to live in it, just like the shawl picture did, so I know it’s something I want to attempt.



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This is a beautiful dress! It’ll be nice to make something like this. Are you going to stick to the colours or are you going to use different ones?

I haven't decided about colors

It’s actually a bolero over a dress, and probably an underdress as well. I buy most of my fabric secondhand, and there’s not a lot of cotton jersey out there, so the materials might change the color scheme.


 

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